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Chang-tai Hung, War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), xv, 432 pp. Cloth $37.00. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index

Chang-tai Hung, War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 (Berkeley, CA:... BOOK REVIEWS Chang-tai Hung, War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 (Berke- ley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), xv, 432 pp. Cloth $37.00. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Since the late 1970s, a number of major full-length studies of popular culture in 20th- century China have appeared on such topics as butterfly fiction and folk songs in the early Republican period and popular religion in the post-Mao era. Yet significant research on the burgeoning of popular culture during the War of Resistance period (1937-45) has developed in piecemeal fashion one article at a time, for the field long lacked a broad and well-documented survey of wartime popular culture. Chang-tai Hung's War and Popular Culture has filled this lacuna with an admirable ex- ample of what Paul Cohen has termed "China-centered" cultural history. Hung's wide reading in Western social and cultural theory enriches his interpretations of wartime popular culture, while his rigorous empiricism and constant attention to the views of Chinese artists and schol- ars safeguard his study from falling into a "postmodern" Western Procrustean bed. Evidence of Hung's mastery of an impressive range of primary sources may be found in every chapter; even the more seasoned http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

Chang-tai Hung, War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), xv, 432 pp. Cloth $37.00. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index

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Brill
Copyright
© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0021-9096
eISSN
1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/156852196X00188
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BOOK REVIEWS Chang-tai Hung, War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 (Berke- ley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), xv, 432 pp. Cloth $37.00. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Since the late 1970s, a number of major full-length studies of popular culture in 20th- century China have appeared on such topics as butterfly fiction and folk songs in the early Republican period and popular religion in the post-Mao era. Yet significant research on the burgeoning of popular culture during the War of Resistance period (1937-45) has developed in piecemeal fashion one article at a time, for the field long lacked a broad and well-documented survey of wartime popular culture. Chang-tai Hung's War and Popular Culture has filled this lacuna with an admirable ex- ample of what Paul Cohen has termed "China-centered" cultural history. Hung's wide reading in Western social and cultural theory enriches his interpretations of wartime popular culture, while his rigorous empiricism and constant attention to the views of Chinese artists and schol- ars safeguard his study from falling into a "postmodern" Western Procrustean bed. Evidence of Hung's mastery of an impressive range of primary sources may be found in every chapter; even the more seasoned

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1996

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